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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1878

97 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 5

Publicans Licenses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 August 1878 · page 3

SIR,—I have read Mr. Thoma[?] and Mr. Cah[?]ll's letters, [?] your issue of to-day [?] expressing an opinio[?] that if an applicant for a [?] a person[?] unobjectionable character, and the [?] in wh[?]h the…

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The Licensing System

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1878 · page 184

IN a former article we recommended, as the best remedy for the terrible evil of drunkenness, that the power of granting and renewing publicans' licenses should be transferred from…

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Publicans' Licenses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 August 1878 · page 3

SIR,—The letter of Mr. Davies in your issue of the 2nd instant gives us the written opinions of three of our highest legal authorities on certain partions of the Sale of Liquors Licensing Act. If I do not mistake Mr. Davies, he appears…

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Not If I Knows It. (Scene -- Metropolitan Hotel.)

Sydney Punch · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 1

Young Wax Match Seller: BUY SOME MATCHES, MISTER ? Comedian: NO, MY BOT, NO. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY RUNNING ABOUT WITHOUT SHOES AND STOCKINGS? WHY DON'T YOU GO AND LIVE RESPECTABLY AND GO ON THE STAGE? Young Wax Match Seller: AND BECOME A COMMON PLAY HACTOR CHAP ? NOT IF I…

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Publicans' Licenses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 August 1878 · page 3

Sir,—Whatever the "brewers" of this bibulous community may think of Mr. Davies's array of legal opinions published in your issue of Friday last, many of your disinterested readers will feel grateful to Mr. Davies for his…

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The Brewer and Publican

Evening News · Tuesday 13 August 1878 · page 2

There was an examination meeting yesterday, in the estate of Edmund Walker Cooper, publican, of the Adelaide Hotel. 81, King-street. Mr. S C. Brown appeared for the assignee…

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The Licensing Question. To the Editor

Evening News · Thursday 15 August 1878 · page 3

SIR,—Much has been written about public houses, and magistrates' discretion in granting licenses, but it appears to me that the main thing to be desired, viz., causing of the present numerous low pot-house dens of infamy and poison…

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Application for Publican's License

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 15

ON Tuesday last Mr. Whitehorn's application for a publican's license for a hotel, situated at the corner of Stanley and Palmer streets, 'Woolloomooloo, was heard at the Water Police Court,…

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Law or License?

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 13

THE proceeding in the "Water Police Court on Monday are calculated to remove a very erroneous popular impression. The idea which has long if not very…

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Open Column the Licensing System

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 3

The reckless manner in which hotel licenses are now granted in all parts of the colony should cause some very decisive steps to be taken without…

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The Liquor License Question

Evening News · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 2

The Premier, the hon. J. S. Farnell, was interviewed this morning on the liquor license question by a deputation from the new Liquor License Association, consisting of Sir Alfred Stephen, the Rev. W…

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The Women's Hotel A Failure

Evening News · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 5

The hotel for women, which was opened in New York on April 1, is to be abandoned as a special home for women, and will soon become an hotel for all who desire to avail themselves of its facilities. Mrs. A…

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The Liquor License Question

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 11

The Premier, the hon.J. S.Farnell, was interviewed last Wednesday on the liquor license question by. a deputation from the new Liquor License Association, consisting of Sir Alfred Stephen, the Revs. W…

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Parramatta Police Court. Saturday, August 24. Transfer of License

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1878 · page 4

The publican's license held by Edward Braddick, for the Sportsman’s Inn, Church-street, Parramatta, was transferred to Charles Addington, who obtained permission to change the…

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Our Licensing Laws

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 September 1878 · page 13

The question whether her our licensing laws conduce to the welfare of the colony can be best answered by marking the effects which hare flowed from them. If we see the…

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Three Licenses Refused

Evening News · Tuesday 10 September 1878 · page 2

To-day being the general monthly licensing day at the Water Police Court, that place presented the usual animated appearance. The application which drew the magisterial array together was that of one…

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Three Licenses Refused

Evening News · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 3

Yesterday being the general monthly icensing day at the Water Police Court, that place presented the usual animated appearance. The application which drew the migisterial array together, was that of one…

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Sydney Disgraced. the Ubiquitous Boots of the Hotels

Evening News · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 3

A PASSENGER by the City of New York, from San Franciso to Sydney, thus sums us up in the Chicago Daily Tribune. After doing Auckland the writer proceeds as follows:—…

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Trickett's Hotel Robbed

Evening News · Monday 16 September 1878 · page 2

Our readers will learn with regret that during the absence of the champion, Trickett, at the boatrace, on Saturday, some dastardly fellows went into his hotel, and found their way upstairs, where they…

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The Licensing Question. To the Editor

Evening News · Friday 27 September 1878 · page 3

SIR,—Having attended the public meeting yesterday evening at the Wesleyan schoolroom Glebe held for the purpose of taking steps to arrest the further granting of public-house licenses in that locality and having listened to the arguments…

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